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Original Post Date: 2004-01-08 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 1/8/2004 5:43:32 AM
Warrant sought for Mugabe"s arrest
London – A human rights campaigner began an application through the British courts on Wednesday for a warrant for the arrest and extradition of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on torture charges.
Peter Tatchell is seeking the warrant under a provision of Britain’s 1988 Criminal Justice Act that anyone who commits, authorises, colludes, acquiesces or condones acts of torture anywhere in the world can be prosecuted in Britain. No one opposed the application.
“I make this application to this court because there is no possibility that such an application could be made, with any serious prospect of success, in a court in Zimbabwe,” Tatchell told the court here.
Tatchell presented documents from human rights groups, including Amnesty International, and an affidavit from Zimbabwean journalist Ray Choto, who alleges he suffered “asphyxiation by immersion in water bags, electric shock treatment and was kept throughout in leg-irons and handcuffs”.
‘No one opposed the application’
Choto, who now lives in Washington DC, said he was told by his torturers that Mugabe had signed his death warrant.
“It is inconceivable that Mr Mugabe as commander in chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Force is unaware of what’s going on. He is culpable and responsible and should held to account in a court of law ,” Tatchell said.
But Tatchell is facing two major obstacles to his legal bid – Britain’s attorney-general must agree to any prosecution and heads of state are usually immune from prosecution.
Tatchell has twice tried to make a citizen’s arrest of Mugabe, first in London in 1999. When he tried two years later in Brussels, he was beaten by Mugabe’s bodyguards.
The matter was postponed until January 14. – Sapa-AP
This article was originally published on page 4 of The Cape Times on January 08, 2004
Source: IOL
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